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Comment · 3 months ago
or we could glass the continent
Comment · 3 months ago
An insane assumption when there are millions of immigrants in every european country lining up for every type of health care service and not contributing a cent back into it
Comment · 3 months ago
In your opinion, which specific criminal acts have American executives committed in the last 20 years?

Holmes et co have been charged and incarcerated, SBF is also sitting in prison, other executives at smaller companies have also been prosecuted and faced imprisonment. I think there is a lot of fraud in various industries, but some of it is prosecuted, and some of it is legal enough that there is only a fine to pay. There is some accountability, and as much as i can criticize what corps do, i don't think of them as "legally responsible" for every misuse of their tools. Today it seems that if someone cuts their own leg off with a power saw it is a lawsuit against the tool company.

Comment · 4 months ago
these "other tactics" are just attempts at increasing demand. Cost plus is how many business set prices but that is entirely separate from what the market decides. If cost plus is not an attractive price, it won't sell, because the demand is not there.
Comment · 4 months ago
Knowledge accumulation seems to have cyclical patterns where general observations are condensed into "laws", and common wisdom is to treat these as unassailable truths. As exceptions and contradictions are found, the popular wisdom is to entirely dismiss the overwhelming universal conformity with the earlier principles because it sounds smart to common people. A lot of normal people see the basic problems with most methodological maxims but are led to believe that the maxim is truth. It takes a podcaster with a "study" to then "debunk" the "myth" they were yesterday defending as unimpeachable. People are generally not well informed enough to know anything and the podcaster class is the worst imaginable vector for knowledge dissemination or popularization. Just clickbait garbage monkeys with foreign money and vicious antisocial tendencies.
Comment · 4 months ago
Insane reflection. Nothing about the open internet has or will change because of a private, third-party payment framework making use of a http status code. Who is paying for bots like this? Every site needs to account for its costs. Just because you're too euro-poor to afford basic access to research doesn't mean others can't pay for it and benefit from it. Get a job.

Is europe just flooding online fora with doomer luddites to demoralize the US tech sector? Sounds far-fetched, but there is nothing organic about the recent rise in US/tech hatred across the web.

Comment · 4 months ago
I agree with the basic premise and math here but getting to true 24/7 uptime in the cloud will require a minimum of 2 full time cloud engineers or infra people. If you're spending another 500K in usage costs you're almost at a million. For most, the cloud is the right option because maintaining servers is a pain and modern clouds offer a lot of additional features that may be useful, but it doesn't mean it's a massive win for the bottom line. There are lots of small and large companies that could run servers on prem or in their own datacenter and it would make financial sense, but they'd have to attract the talent to build and operate, which is harder than just paying enough.
Comment · 5 months ago
fun demo. could be a daily puzzle combining various commenter suggestions. There are (didn't verify personally) 388 solutions. The daily puzzle could remove 1+ pieces and ask for a 1+ move guess.

Also a click on a square could auto place a queen and a second click would swap to the bishop. Every click could auto-check.

A separate discovery mode could start blocking out the squares visually as you place pieces. For a lot of people, that would be easier than the mental representation.

Comment · 5 months ago
Discussion of the free-press in america or elsewhere invariably suffers from lack of historical perspective. Without oversimplifying, the press has always been biased and ideologically motivated to a degree that few appreciate. Because of "all the president's men" and other films lionizing the press' infallible, dogged, ruthless dedication to the truth, people suddenly believe that every journalist is "supposed to be" a paragon of truth-seeking objectivity, dogmatically devoted to the dissemination of "truth to power", but historically and today and even during watergate, the press was a gang of jackals doing yellow muckraking. This has its purpose and we shouldn't hate journalists for doing their job, but it's a complete category error to assume that the press is there to report honestly and objectively.
Comment · 5 months ago
out of all the companies listed, yc would of course choose something like this. "wow you're going to defend american soldiers????" yc and this site are chinese ops run by the scummiest sinotrash on earth. steal millions and deliver vaporware? "oh sounds like a failed business". try to protect soldiers from drones? "oh sounds like you're the terminator highly unethical sar."

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